Powering AI-driven app creation software
Unified tools for building, deploying, and iterating on AI-driven native apps across iOS and Android. AI app generators partner with Expo to build and deploy cross-platform mobile apps.
Powering top AI app-gen companies
At Expo, we want to build the best framework and infrastructure for app creators. My co-founder, Charlie Cheever, has long had a guiding vision for creators to go from an idea to an app in people's hands as fast as possible. I think about this as democratizing software: like writing, where everyone writes even if they're not professional writers, many more people will build the apps they want for themselves, their friends, and their communities. Generative AI is a catalyst for this transformation, and we are positioning Expo to be near its center.
We recognize that the surge of new AI tools may cause developer fatigue. Like the JavaScript ecosystem’s early rapid growth, AI-assisted dev tools will eventually mature. Our AI strategy is to democratize app creation through many-company collaboration. For us, this is also a movement. We aim to enable a sea change of new creators, and level up experienced developers, by providing the Expo framework and Services as the best foundation for AI-assisted creator tools to run and distribute their users' apps. We invite creators, developers, and companies big and small to join us in shaping a future where going from idea to app is faster and more accessible than ever.
March 4, 2025
James Ide @JI
Co-founder and CTO, Expo
AI features paving the way
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Expo Launch gets your users apps to stores in minutes
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I just updated one of my apps from Expo SDK 45 → 53 in like an hour or so with Claude Code, including new arch. Neat
Claude and expo
Cursor and expo - This combo is better than peanut butter jelly
Built a simple mobile app with Claude Code to get back in shape after vacation
-Built a custom workout and nutrition plan with o3
- Gave it to Claude Code
- Deployed with Expo
The age of personal software
day 7 of building an couple mood tracker app using cursor AI with wifey 💍
let's talk about how we integrated notifications to the system using Cursor and Expo
Finally finished migrating to @expo SDK v54.0.0.
The app is live and I’m feeling great! The overall experience was smooth: with Claude, Claude Code, and the Expo docs, the journey couldn’t have been easier.
Well done, team! 🎉
wake up babe a new infinite scroll wiki app just dropped
in all seriousness i've never built a mobile app before and this took me about 4 hours with expo + react native and claude
Try it with Claude and Expo 👀
My current React Native Expo vibe coding on-the-go workflow with minimal subscriptions to AI tools.
🔹$7 Digital Ocean Ubuntu droplet with 4 gigs of extra swap
🔹Claude Code with plan mode and Context7 always mentioning to “use library id /websites/expo_dev”
🔹ShellFish iOS with 8081 port forwarding
🔹git committing at stable points or when I think Claude Code is going to get it wrong
🔹nvim as my editor
🔹Expo Go and triggering build with exp://localhost:8081 on my iPhone after running npm start on the server
🔹iterate changes until happy
A small win but I successfully migrated from http://bolt.new to a local instance of Cursor and Expo, got it loading on my phone.
Now the real work begins.